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International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent international tribunal
seated at The Hague, Netherlands, which was created by a multilateral treaty
known as the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute was adopted on July 17, 1998, and
came into effect on July 1, 2002, after ratification by sixty State Parties. The
ICC was created to prosecute individuals for perpetrating the most serious
international crimes. Its mandate includes genocide, crimes against humanity,
and war crimes. The crime of aggression was added by a subsequent review
conference in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010 and was ratified on December 15, 2017.

While the ICC has the power to hear cases within its mandate, it operates on the
principle of complementarity. This important condition means that it will only
exercise its jurisdiction if national courts with jurisdiction either cannot or
will not prosecute perpetrators of international crimes. The ICC may exercise
jurisdiction if an accused is a national of a State Party (or if the State
otherwise accepts jurisdiction), if a relevant crime occurs in the territory of
a State Party, or if a situation giving rise to crimes within the Court’s
purview is referred by the U.N. Security Council pursuant to its Chapter VII
authority under the UN Charter, even if the situation occurs in a state which is
not a party to the Rome Statute. The Prosecutor has the power to initiate
investigations proprio motu if information credibly alleging the commission of
crimes within the Court’s jurisdiction is received from individuals or
organizations. Jurisdiction is also limited to crimes occurring after July 1,
2002, or after the relevant state ratifies the Rome Statute, whichever is later.

To date, the Court has had four situations referred to it via State Parties, by
Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and
Mali. The U.N. Security Council has referred the situation in the Darfur region
of Sudan and the situation in Libya. Neither are State Parties. The Prosecutor
has initiated investigations into the situations in Kenya and in Côte d’Ivoire.
Situations in Bangladesh/Myanmar and Afghanistan are also currently under
investigation.



On March 31, 2005, the UN Security Council referred the situation in Darfur,
Sudan to the ICC by Security Council Resolution 1593. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis
Moreno Ocampo began the investigation on June 6, 2005. The first arrest warrants
were issued February 7, 2007 for Ahmad Muhammad Harun and Ali Muhammad Ali
Abd-Al-Rahman (known as Ali Kushayb).[4]

Ahmad Muhammad Harun (or Haroun) was the former Minister of State for the
Interior of Sudan and the Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs. He was the
governor of the state of South Kordofan from 2009-2013 and then was appointed as
governor of North Kordofan in 2013. Harun is alleged to have used his position
to coordinate, fund, and direct the activities of the Janjaweed. He was arrested
in April 2019 by local authorities in Sudan following a coup which overthrew
President Omar al-Bashir. [5]

Ali Kushayb was a senior commander of the Janjaweed, a paramilitary group, and
has been charged with twenty-two counts of crimes against humanity and
twenty-eight counts of war crimes. He was arrested and turned over to the ICC in
June 2020. [6]

Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein, who formerly served as the longstanding Minister
of National Defense and the President’s Special Representative in Darfur. He has
previously served as governor of Khartoum State. He was charged with multiple
counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity on March 1, 2012. [7] Hussein
was arrested in early April 2019, with Haroun, following a coup which overthrew
al-Bashir.

Omar al-Bashir

On March 4, 2009, the Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir, charging him with multiple counts of war crimes and crimes against
humanity. A second arrest warrant was later added on July 12, 2010, adding
charges of genocide. The allegations against Bashir accuse the leader of
directing and causing the atrocities committed in Darfur by his government and
by government-backed militias.

The arrest warrants from the ICC should have prevented Bashir from traveling to
countries that are State Parties to the Rome Statute, since he could have been
arrested in those countries.  However, he traveled widely and with impunity,
flaunting his influence in the region and avoiding accountability. Despite the
warrants, al-Bashir won consecutive re-elections in 2010 and 2015.

However, in April 2019, President Omar al-Bashir was finally ousted in a coup.
In February 2020, the Sudanese government officially agreed to hand al-Bashir
over to the ICC to face war crime and genocide charges. [8] This has not
occurred as of this writing (June 2020); he is incarcerated in Sudan in a prison
for the elderly.

Though the government of Sudan is the only faction to be accused of genocide, it
is not the only entity to be accused of crimes within the jurisdiction of the
ICC. In May of 2009, a summons to appear before the Court was issued for Bahar
Idriss Abu Garda, Chairman and General Coordinator of Military Operations of the
United Resistance Front on allegations of war crimes. However, following a
hearing in February 2010, charges were not confirmed. The Court rejected the
Prosecutor’s appeal of the decision, and the case is considered closed unless
new evidence is presented.

Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, Commander of the Justice and Equality Movement
(JEM), and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, former Chief of Staff for the Sudanese
Liberation Army, both appeared voluntarily before the Court on June 17, 2010.
Charges against both men on three counts of war crimes were confirmed by the
Court in March of 2011. In 2014, an arrest warrant was issued for Abdallah Banda
Abakaer Nourain to ensure his presence at trial. However, he is currently at
large, and his trial will not proceed until he is either arrested or voluntarily
shows up to court.

Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus died in April of 2013, and the charges against him
were terminated in October 4, 2013. [9]

This page was written jointly by Christie Nicoson, Exhibit Coordinator, Lisa
Dailey, News Associate, and Rachel Hall Beecroft, Program and Operations
Coordinator. This page was updated in June 2020.

 

Other Resources

Report on the 12th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome
Statute, Coalition for the International Criminal Court, 20-28 November 2013,
The Hague, The Netherlands. [download]

Obtaining Victim Status for Purposes of Participating at the International
Criminal Court, American University, December 2013. [download]

The Growing Importance of the International Criminal Court, by Naseem Kourosh,
The Georgetown Journal, 27 January 2014.

Citations:

[1]
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works/Pages/default.aspx#organization

[2]
http://www.peaceandjusticeinitiative.org/implementation-resources/proprio-motu-investigation-by-the-icc-prosecutor

[3] https://www.icc-cpi.int/pages/situations.aspx

[4] https://www3.nd.edu/~ndlaw/cchr/papers/ayad_The_ICC_and_Darfur.pdf

[5] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-politics-idUSKCN1RW09C

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/africa/ali-kushayb-in-custody.html

[7] https://www.icc-cpi.int/darfur/hussein

[8] https://www.icc-cpi.int/darfur/albashir

[8] https://www.icc-cpi.int/darfur/banda

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